Unpacking

You will have downloaded the EMBOSS and EMBASSY packages to a suitable directory. For this example we will assume you have downloaded them to

/packages

so you should now have the following files (or similar) and maybe more packages in EMBASSY.

% ls
EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz
EMNU-1.0.5.tar.gz
ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz
HMMER-2.1.1.tar.gz
MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz
MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz
PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz
TOPO-0.1.tar.gz

First unpack the EMBOSS distribution

% gunzip EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz
% tar xf EMBOSS-latest.tar

This will create a new directory,

EMBOSS-2.5.0

or similar. You may wish to use

tar xpf

for unpacking EMBOSS.

Enter the EMBOSS directory

% cd EMBOSS-2.5.0

create a directory for the EMBASSY packages

% mkdir embassy

Now move the EMBASSY packages to the EMBASSY directory

% mv ../MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz \
   TOPO-0.1.tar.gz embassy

Go into the EMBASSY directory and unpack those packages.

% cd embassy

% gunzip MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz
% tar xf MSE-0.0.4.tar

and so on for each EMBASSY package.

Go back up one directory to the main EMBOSS package directory and prepare to start compilation.